u/NoMovie2461

I read the story and looked back through his social posts.

I'll give him credit for engaging before the election and talking with voters. It sounds like he's been attending council meetings to better understand the role he's seeking.

I don't agree with his videos. Will he turn off the Meta glasses if he's talking to someone and they ask?

I'm concerned about assertions like open and closed-door decision making given how specific the Community Charter is on that issue. On the CN Centre repair loan, if his position is that it should have gone to referendum, what alternative does he propose when infrastructure requires expensive repairs and citizens vote it down?

I'm also curious about his use of the term "special interests." A group advocating for a stoplight or traffic calming could reasonably be called a special interest group. The question isn't whether groups have particular interests, but how Council weighs competing interests transparently and makes decisions in the broader public interest.

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Can anyone confirm this?

From the article: Zukowski said he wants a local community safety officer program. He said these officers could respond to lower-severity calls than RCMP officers and may even allow the city to reduce the number of Mounties it contracts for. Unlike Mounties, he said, city council would be able to direct these officers’ operations.
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If they're intended to take calls currently handled by the RCMP, I'd like to see some detail on how that would actually work.

• What exactly qualifies as a "lower-severity" call?
• How much would it cost to establish and operate this force?
• Would RCMP contract savings actually cover those costs?
• How would dispatch and coordination between the two work?
• What jurisdiction and legal powers would these officers have?
• What training and oversight would they receive?
• How are they different from by-law?

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If Brodie and possibly Armstrong get back into the Conservative caucus, does Centre BC look a lot more attractive for non MAGA voters?

I think the other declared candidate for now is Roy Stewart who placed third last time.

Is Simon Yu running for reelection?

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Does anyone have any detail on this?

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Wonder who KLF is bringing in. Another retread BC Reformer from the 1990s like her chief of staff?

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From CTV: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/has-rise-of-the-right-primed-bc-politics-for-a-party-that-breaks-the-binary/

Excerpt:
Former British Columbia premier Christy Clark says voters in the province face a choice between the “worst government in B.C. history” and an opposition headed by an unelectable leader.

“She cannot win an election,” Clark said of Conservative Party of B.C. Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay. “She is too kooky.”

Clark isn’t alone in making a calculation that the ascendancy of conservatives like Findlay — who has promised a government guided by “faith, family, and freedom” — leaves the B.C. political map wide open to a new centre-right force.

Here's the comment- https://x.com/sarobertson_/status/2068016699832418564/video/1

"I met a lady at the airport the other day who told me that she moved from Vancouver to Mexico so that she would feel more safe. Let that sink in. more safe in Mexico than in Vancouver."

In other news, the whereabouts continue to remain unknown for:

1. Mustafa from Calgary who couldn't get a passport for his wedding in Cuba and
2. Brianne from Chilliwack who had her bank accounts frozen because of a $50 donation to the Freedom Convoy.

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I think she's off at least a few Christmas card lists.

I know they were in theory a new party of sorts, but how could the BC Conservatives have allowed two candidates to get approved who now face criminal charges for alleged incidents that supposedly happened prior to their election?

Did the party just not ask any questions about the candidates' backgrounds and let them run no matter what? What will they do differently for the next election?

I think people like party brass like Aisha Estey and Angelo Isidirou have some serious questions to answer if their party is in theory the government in waiting.

Where will she try to get a seat in the legislature? It's been said her husband Brent Chapman may step aside in Surrey South. He also said that if he did, he'd want to run again in the next provincial election.

Would John Rustad resign so she'd parachute in via a Northern riding? I don't think he intends to run again.

I guess there's no conflict of interest with KLF's husband being an MLA or candidate in the party she leads. It's not like there's any possibility of preference in signing nomination papers of one's spouse or choosing members to sit on committees or in cabinet if one becomes Premier.

It's not like how she identified the conflict that Peter Milobar would have on Indigenous matters given his spouse is Indigenous.

/s

Who in the BC Conservative leadership race would be the best choice for party unity?

It appears to me that if someone like Kerry-Lynne Findlay wins, Tara Armstrong and Jordan Kealy may be back in caucus. I'd see more of the "business Liberal/Socred" MLAs being uncomfortable with that.

If Peter Milobar or Iain Black wins, I'd think the harder right MLAs may not be happy with the choice. I don't know whether they'd abandon the party if they haven't already done so.